The two points of access to the consultation

Consultation of legal professionals

You work with lawyers, opposite them or alongside them, so the way they work with digital tools affects your own profession. This entrance, on the civil society side, gathers your needs on every subject of the consultation, from the exchange of documents to shared tools, from artificial intelligence to data storage, from online procedures to training. Each message may name something you lack, propose a concrete action or point to a practice that already works and deserves to be kept.

Examples

• Exchanging documents and submissions with a firm on a platform that works without sticking points.
• Holding a remote hearing or meeting with a lawyer while the documents exchanged stay protected.
• Knowing whether the lawyer opposite you uses an artificial intelligence tool on the case.
• Knowing where the data of a member of the public entrusted to a shared tool are stored, who can access them.

Your profession Choose from the list Legal professions: legal counsel, notary, judicial officer, judge or prosecutor, court clerk, law teacher or researcher, legal publisher or legal tech company

What is your message about?

Choose the subject closest to your message, which the consultation team will read with those about the same thing.

Choose from the list Access to justice: referring people to a lawyer, working with themExchanges with lawyers: documents, messages, remote hearingsThe cost of legal services: fees, legal aid, legal expenses insuranceArtificial intelligence at law firms and in your professionLegal software publishers: French, European or from elsewhereWhere case data are storedSecurity of the data exchanged with lawyersOnline procedures and digital justiceAge, disability, language, distance: online access to justiceForeign laws and access to case dataCourt decisions open to allNew online legal services and legal start-upsLawyers’ tools and working together with themHanding over a case file from one tool to anotherFree software and open standardsDigital training for lawyers and legal professionalsHow law firms are organised, seen from your professionThe role of public authorities, professional bodies and legal institutionsModernising the legal professions and keeping control of dataOther subject

Describe your need without writing any name, address or case number, whether yours or a relative’s. This message helps prepare the consultation’s proposals; it does not replace a lawyer’s advice on your own situation.

What do you need, in your profession, to work with lawyers and their digital tools?

One need per message, 8,000 characters at most. A situation from your practice helps the team understand it: an exchange of documents with a firm, a remote hearing, a shared tool, a request from a member of the public.

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It lets contributions be read area by area. It never appears with your message.

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So that the consultation team can reply to you.

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I agree that my contribution may be kept and read by the consultation team in order to prepare the report of 25 May 2027, after an analysis assisted by artificial intelligence on the consultation’s servers in France. It is published on this site only if I choose so below, under the Open Licence 2.0.

Publishing your contribution

I agree that my contribution may be published on this site after review, with or without my name as chosen below, under the Open Licence 2.0: anyone may reuse it freely, including for commercial purposes, provided they cite its source. I may ask for its removal from the site at any time. Removal does not recall copies already reused.

Do not publish my contributionPublish it with my namePublish it without my name

Personal data

The publisher of the site keeps your message, together with the information you choose to provide, in order to prepare the report of the consultation, on the basis of your consent. Open-weight artificial intelligence models, which the consultation runs on its servers in France, analyse it to help the team read it; a member of the team takes every decision. Your email address, if you give it, is used only to reply to you.

You may request access to your message, its rectification or its erasure by writing to propositions@souverainete-avocats.fr. Details are given on the Personal data page.

After sending, a personal link shows you your contribution’s progress: received, read, under review, retained, amended or set aside with a reason, merged, in the report.

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One-minute questions

One choice per question, one minute in all. Every question is optional.

Do the digital tools you share with lawyers save you time or cost you time?

They save me a lotThey save me a littleNeitherThey cost me a littleThey cost me a lotI share no tool with lawyersI don’t know

Do the people you serve ask for more or fewer remote exchanges than five years ago?

MoreAs manyFewerI have practised for less than five yearsI don’t know

Do you use artificial intelligence in your profession?

Every weekFrom time to timeI tried it, then stoppedNeverMy employer or institution forbids it

Where are your organisation’s documents stored today?

In FranceIn another European Union countryOutside the European UnionIn several placesI don’t know

Could your organisation change supplier for its main tools without major difficulty?

YesRather yesRather noNoI don’t choose my organisation’s toolsI don’t know

Would a showcase of young French and European publishers, open to lawyers as to the other legal professions, be useful to you?

Yes, I would consult itPerhapsNo, it would not be useful to meNo, it seems risky to meI don’t know

Have you ever given up a digital tool for fear for the secrecy or confidentiality of case files?

YesNoI have never asked myself the question

Who should act first on the modernisation and digital sovereignty of the legal professions?

The professional bodies and institutions of each professionThe public authoritiesLegal publishers and legal tech companiesEach firm, office or departmentNo one, the current situation suits meI don’t know

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Consultation timeline

1. 23 October 2026

   Publication of the open letter

2. by 29 October

   First ideas

3. 29 October 2026

   Official opening of the consultation

4. until 30 April 2027 You are here

   Contribution period

5. May 2027

   Summary of the contributions

6. 25 May 2027

   Public presentation of the findings

7. 25 May 2027

   Publication of the report

8. afterwards

   Submission to the institutions

See the consultation timeline stage by stage